Queen Victoria of England, who reigned for sixty-three years over the Commonwealth in the making, must have been well aware of the pains of childbirth. With her husband (and first cousin), Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the British sovereign, born in 1819, had nine children. Although her biographers credit her with a moderate interest in motherhood, she was, like any of her subjects, subject to the harsh reality of childbirth.
In 1847, while pregnant with her sixth child (Louise), the sovereign heard about a medical innovation: chloroform anesthesia. Independently discovered by American, French, and German researchers in the early 1830s, this product was initially considered a pesticide. But it was Scottish obstetrician James Young Simpson who discovered its sedative and anesthetic powers, which he shared in a famous scientific publication in 1847. His goal then was to find a replacement…
Source: Le Figaro
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